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The clarity of thinking behind parking your car in a location like this. Surely the difficulty in opening your door might have given you a sodding clue!
There's a FB page called Shite Parking Watch UK and I reckon you'd love it!
'you can't park there, mate!'
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BBC sounds, and podcasts in general..
I want to listen to something soothing and hopefully learn something at the same time.
So why do they all talk at a million miles an hour? .. A bit like a record on the wrong speed setting.
On that the new(ish) bbc news app. It's rubbish the old one was better.
You can, you know, alter the speed of the playback…You’ve not accidentally set at 2X speed have you?
I did this. Accidentally set to 1.5X on spotify. I spent the whole of a 2 hour car journey listening to podcasts but thinking 'I seriously need to cut my caffeine intake, feels like my brain is on fast forward'!
OS Maps app - I'm using the free version but have about 30 paper maps that I can use offline.
However the app seems to prioritise functionality to those who pay to subscribe. My wife has the full version and rarely has issues. I have lots of problems when in areas where I have paid for the paper map. It's so ****ing annoying. It was the same on my old phone and they've just updated the app for improved user experience. Bollocks, the same old issue persists.
Fix your app you muppets
@mattyfez – he should have gone to Specsavers
TL;DR - it was intentional, it was staged by Specsavers.
On parking - twospacers, those delightful 'kendians who carefully leave half a car length in front of them,
Bike race route profiles. They are always printed showing the distance gone (for hills, sprints etc), whereas when watching on TV they show the race with the distance still to go.
Okay so all it involves is some simple subtraction, but it still bugs me.
However the app seems to prioritise functionality to those who pay to subscribe.
Can you think of maybe one teensy-weensy reason why that might be??? (-:
I know but my paper maps cost a hell of lot more than the annual subscription
Car drivers who set off across zebra crossings the millisecond a pedestrian has taken one step across the halfway mark.
Sainsburys self-checkouts... The most unresponsive touchscreen device in the known and unknown universe.
I know but my paper maps cost a hell of lot more than the annual subscription
A very fair point. You could also argue that as a national service (like the Met Office, NHS etc) it should be free, especially as it could be a life saver.
The humanitarian aid posters above the urinals in motorway services. Not because of the cause (which is important and valid and just) but because they use a first name as an example in “thousands of girls like Shahida”, but then tack a note on the bottom to say “Name has been changed to protect privacy”.
It’s a first name. If anything you’ve made it worse by making everyone who has the new first name the focus.
I appreciate this is an irrational and petty dislike, but that’s what this forum- uh, thread is for.
Those plastic bait boxes on the side of the new defender. Don’t know why but every time I drive past one with them I end up spitting at the inside of my windscreen swearing!
I thought they were first aid kits
I thought they were first aid kits
Nah, they drive Chevys.
The humanitarian aid posters above the urinals in motorway services.
We must be going to different services, the last time I was in one they were advertising treatment for erectile disfunction. Which, really, is the last thing most people want in the gents.
The utter cockwombles having lunch near us at the Clachan inn. I don't care that you're absolutely minted, or that Barnaby is just coming to terms with how privileged he is but you did when you were 14. Or that Farquhar is sooo lovely but obviously gay. Or indeed you are planning to run across the US west to east in 6months. But how can we do long haul holidays and care for the planet? Oh you're so right, we're only here for 80 years so deserve to see as much as we can.
I do hope that the great waitress spat in your oysters and rubbed the pork rib eye on the floor as there is no need to be so dismissive of another human being. "Another one of those" is not an answer to "are you enjoying your meal, can I get you anything else".
People who drive huge American pick-up trucks in the UK. There's a couple around here. Noisy massive stupid look at me pieces of crap that take up the entire road.
Ditto any Harley Davidson. Pathetic noisy, fat, slow, lazy bikes for ...well you can finish that sentence
People who are constantly negative and moan about things. I get the need to vent but it gets rather annoying after a while. If it's something you can can personally affect then go do something, if not shut up.
Yes I get the irony of me having a moan online about it.
We must be going to different services, the last time I was in one they were advertising treatment for erectile disfunction. Which, really, is the last thing most people want in the gents.
I mean, to be fair, if the alternative were to happen in the gents.......
Yes I get the irony of me having a moan online about it.
In a thread titled Stuff that makes you disproportionately cross, no less! 🙂
That 3 in 1 oil no longer comes in those metal cans, which make that satisfying bacco bacco sound as you squeeze to get the couple of drips that you need.
**** IT systems, 2 so far this week
1. Esure. Login page > we've sent you a link > click link > Login page > we've sent you a link > click link > Login page
we've sent you...
2. Barclays. "Need you to go onto the app and setup an account using this method" > App doesn't allow that > "Can you try another way?" > No as they all need specific details > confusion and silence
I've probably said this before but the use of hey (or even worse hey!) as the opening to a work email. Well any communication at all really. Pretend you are a grown up talking to another grown up please.
... I mean why bother posting that you're leaving the forum? Just go.
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… I mean why bother posting that you’re leaving the forum? Just go.
Normally I'd agree, but in this case, it highlighted an issue which was subsequently addressed, so it was worthwhile.
Non-prescribing professions allied to medicine sending patients to me with ridiculous requests for prescriptions, therefore proving why they haven't got prescribing rights in the first place.
See also complimentary therapists suggesting "a scan".
Courier companies who make you waste a whole day, when you've got much better things to do. Waiting in to sign for a parcel which they can't be arsed to deliver. Fedex w⚓️rs! 😡
Dentist's receptionists who, in a room fill of people, 'announce' your full name, DOB, home address and phone number at decibels equivalent to a jumbo jet taking off. Tbf, I'm not sure the window cleaner up a ladder 3 streets away quite caught that...could you just say it again...oh you could. Thanks.
Tissues, generally.
Tissues in the washing machine, specifically.
Tissues, generally.
Tissues in the washing machine, specifically.
Non-absorbant tissues... like the kind you get in dispensers in cafes/food outlets...its like waxed paper, why even bother?
See also complimentary therapists
You could've stopped there.
There's no such thing as "alternative medicine" and it's high time we stopped legitimising quackery as such. Either you're selling medicine, or you're selling thoughts and prayers and a nice air freshener.
Trying to setup, play and police the kid's accounts on the Nintendo Switch and Xbox.
I've spent hours trying to transfer Fortnite and Minecraft accounts between the two 😢
Cars parked partially on the pavement.
Cars on the road can’t get past when another car is coming the other way and the pavement is blocked.
So just park fully on the road and leave the pavement clear.
People that think that science or medicine is 'done' - the day you think that is the day something comes along to make you rethink.
People that think that science or medicine is ‘done’
Does anyone actually think that?
Cars parked partially on the pavement.
At the old house, all my neighbours parked up on the pavement by maybe a foot or so. I never did. After my third or fourth overnight hit-and-run write-off I too started pavement parking.
At the old house, all my neighbours parked up on the pavement by maybe a foot or so. I never did. After my third or fourth overnight hit-and-run write-off I too started pavement parking.
Horses for courses. If I pavement park in my road, it makes the road just about wide enough for 2.05 cars. Which means that people try to get through doubled up and sometimes misjudge it - I've had 2 wing mirrors done and at £100+ to replace, enough's enough.
By staying in the road there clearly isn't space and people are forced to do it properly.
By staying in the road there clearly isn’t space and people are forced to do it properly.
Added bonus, wheelchair users and kids in prams/buggies aren't forced onto the road because the pavement is blocked. Which is nice....
Oh, sure, that just an anecdote, it wasn't meant to be a one-size-fits-all response.
Rather, for all your mirrors, this is the sort of thing I had to contend with:
On the left, a stolen Scooby. On the right, the remnants my Passat that even Molgrips would struggle to resuscitate. Granted, being up on the kerb probably wouldn't have mitigated this particular joy, point is that this sort of thing wasn't uncommon when living on a main road.
Added bonus, wheelchair users and kids in prams/buggies aren’t forced onto the road because the pavement is blocked. Which is nice….
This.
Taking the grandchild out gave me a whole new perspective on what it's like to be using the pavement on wheels. Sure, I'll just roll a two-year old out into oncoming traffic because you can't be ****ed to walk ten yards to the chip shop then, shall I? Arseholes.
On the right, the remnants my Passat that even Molgrips would struggle to resuscitate
and there was me thinking your claims of write-offs must be exaggerated!!
The new lids on some drinks bottles. They just seem pointless. They don't detach so you can't lose the lid but then they can be tricky to get back on especially for older people with knackered hands.
The new lids on some drinks bottles.
Same design on some cartons of fresh juice etc, they just get in the way when you're trying to pour the liquid out. All over the chuffing worktop.
The lids are now recyclable in conjunction with the bottles, possibly a different process or made of similar plastic type so can be recycled together.
Before I imagine lids got lost and ended up in places they shouldn't. Down drains, in the water system etc etc.
The new lids on some drinks bottles.
I like them. I've lost count of the times I've had a drink in the car and fumbled the cap so it pings off under the seat.
and there was me thinking your claims of write-offs must be exaggerated!!
Yeah, that one wasn't small. 😁 I was oblivious, I had friends round and we were playing Rock Band on the Xbox. I got a phone call from my mum, "are you OK?" Uh, yes? "Someone's just knocked on my door, said there's been a car accident." I went out to investigate, expecting a lost mirror or something, and was met with that scene.
As the story goes, it was an Asian lad who contacted my mum after failing to raise my attention (because I was knocking seven bells out of a plastic drum kit). In broken English he goes, "your son, blue car, big accident, very bad" and my mum's like OH MY GOD!!
The driver of the stolen Impreza was another young Asian lad (I lived in Accrington, we had a surfeit of them) who allegedly had been walking past the house of the owner who had 'just started it up and left it running because he was selling it," our hero had gone "****ing Scooby, fantastic!" and had away with it. It's not clear from the photo but just lower down the road is a small traffic island. He's come up the lane with the bit between his teeth, zig-zagged around the island, physics outstripped his ability and he oversteered at about 45' straight through the face of my Passat.
He initially took to his heels, but in the end he came forward and handed himself in. I rather suspect that the local Asian community didn't give him a great deal of choice in the matter, they were good like that.
I think they should change this thread to ' Absolutely anything, not matter how small, that makes Cougar cross(or even slightly miffed)"
My Garmin Instinct watch that, whilst functioning as a watch, has zero ability to, even semi-accurately, record activities, a significant supposed benefit/purpose of said device. It can't track distance properly, having failed to recognise multiple measured 5ks, 2 x official 10ks, and much to my dismay didn't recognise a half marathon. In addition, it thinks that walking up a 1% incline has elevated me to heights akin the Alps, or Himalayas
My Oral B electric toothbrush. It does a great job of cleaning my teeth but the rechargeable NiMH battery only lasts a week and takes 24 hours to charge. I'm eagerly waiting for it to die so I can get one with a modern battery but it just refuses.
Electric toothbrushes !
I'm starting to think that Wall-E is a documentary from the future
My Garmin Instinct watch
"Make A U-Turn" If I ever meet the Garmin employee who wrote the bit of software, or signed off on the project that enabled this as an actual on-screen instruction after the watch decides that you're off-course....I'll, I'll give him a U-Turn...yeah, that's what I'll do, that'll show them...Or something.
Anyway, that.
Brewers who've started calling traditional bitter and pale ale 'amber ale'. Marstons Pedigree, Fullers London Pride etc. Apparently they do it because they think the word 'bitter' will scare younger drinkers off. I think they've lost the plot.
Taps and sinks on trains. They're rubbish. The sensors don't work and the water - IF THERE IS ANY - just dribbles out. The sinks are so tiny there's no way of keeping the floor dry. Manky
Having just walked round Malham Cove, the number of signs alerting people to lambing etc and the number of dogs off the lead.
When you get unsolicited phonecalls that start with 'how are you today?' Why don't they just say 'will you give us your money?'
Verbose political threads where everything is complex, difficult to understand and change and whataboutery. Why not just say 'I support apartheid' and save everyone a lot of time?
People who drive along unlit country roads, in bad weather, doing about half the speed limit, with nothing coming, who don't put their headlights on full beam. Yes I know you're driving very carefully, that's very commendable, but if you could actually see a bit more you might be able to go just a little bit faster. And now we're on a downhill section please take your foot off the ****ing brake. Just change down a gear and stop ****ing dazzling me.
People driving on undulating NSL roads who don’t understand physics and therefore do not apply more acceleration as they go uphill.
Computer manufacturers who can't agree to all use the same key to access the BIOS on startup and don't display which one it is in the splash screen (plus keyboards that have a tiny switch to change the function keys from function keys to shortcuts).
This is the plug in our sink.
If it is lifted up a bit the water drains away fine and and bits if waste are caught so the trap doesn't get blocked. But no, every effing time it's removed so I get to enjoy dismantling the waste regularly. Drives me pissing insane, I'm thinking of supergluing it in place, (which would be entirely futile as then it wouldn't even work as a drain)
"Gifted" instead of given.
Passive aggression, false premises, and thickos.
The use of the word "hubby".
Selfish people ..
Shite parking on pavements
The rain around Saddleworth .. I think its rained almost none stop since September in one way or another!
No direct Flights to Sofia meaning Bulgaria mtb holiday will be an arse involving London village
" I think its rained almost none stop"
The use of none stop when they mean non-stop
If it is lifted up a bit the water drains away fine and and bits if waste are caught so the trap doesn’t get blocked. But no, every effing time it’s removed so I get to enjoy dismantling the waste regularly. Drives me pissing insane, I’m thinking of supergluing it in place, (which would be entirely futile as then it wouldn’t even work as a drain)
Oh dear god, looks like MrsMC has an evil twin and you've married her!
I'm sure it's grounds for divorce
Oh dear god, looks like MrsMC has an evil twin and you’ve married her!
Nope. An evil triplet at least, because Mrs Onewheel does that too. Why?
Oh dear god, looks like MrsMC has an evil twin and you’ve married her!
Well, I'm putting a bid in for quadruplets on this one. Mine's the same. Every time she peels potatoes or carrots. FFS.
Well, I’m putting a bid in for quadruplets on this one. Mine’s the same. Every time she peels potatoes or carrots. FFS.
I must live next door to one of you...my neighbours drain blocked and was overflowing into the back yard while she was out so I donned the marrigolds and a prodding stick and pulled out huge chods of long purple hair and pasta spirals.
Hair I can kind of understand, but she must have forced at least a pan worth of left over pasta down the plughole? When I told her about it, it was... "again? I don't know why it keeps doing that?" (this was the second time its overflowed since I lived here...after I tactfully explained that plug holes are for water, not food waste... it hasn't happend again... yet!
Nat West trying to charge me £670 for my home insurance renewal, when online quotes from other companies are around the £180 mark, also the letter arrived six days after the first instalment went out and twelve days after it was dated, this has properly pissed me off.
My wife (and kids) need regular reminding that the dish washer cannot get rid of food that is left on the table plates and bowls.
They also think that the washing machine can wash pants and socks whilst they're still in the inside-out trousers that they've removed in a single action.
Postman delivered a letter addressed to me to the wrong street (just around the corner). The guy who lives there kindly brings it to my house (may have been a few days or a week later). It’s an NHS letter asking to to call them to make an appointment for an MRI on my knackered thumb (MTB accident).
The next day I call the NHS appointment line only to hear an automated reply stating they are on Easter holiday. I call back the first day they are back working after Easter only to told the window for me to make an appointment had closed. I’d need to wait for the consultant to request an appointment again and join the queue again. FFS I have been waiting since January. Who devises a system where they post out a letter to get you to call for an appointment which times out in 5 to 7 days? Do schadenfreudes devise these systems?
Well, I’m putting a bid in for quadruplets on this one. Mine’s the same
We need to form a support group....
Might have been done, but... People who say 'Expresso' rather than 'Espresso'.
I'm more of a metrosexual flat-white or latte man, myself, but it really bothers me.
I even heard a presenter on Radio 2 say it the other day. THIS COUNTRY IS GOING TO HELL IN A HAND CART.
The fact that, even after nearly 10 months, X is still referred to as: "X (formerly known as Twitter)"
FFS. I don't post on X, nor have the app, but even I know what the fudge it is.
Parking meters that have a little keyboard for inputting your registration number but is laid out A,B,C etc and not in standard QWERTY layout! Takes me 10x as long to work out where the letters are as it feels so unnatural